Woodborough

专有名词

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A village and civil parish in Gedling district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6347).
  2. A suburb of Winscombe, North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4257).
  3. A village and civil parish in the Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1059).

词源

From Old English widu (“wood”) + beorg (“hill”), with the second element at some point being misanalyzed as burh, giving the modern form borough. Otherwise, the modern form of beorg would have been berry (“mound, hill”), giving something like *Woodberry.
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